The new watercolour course has just started on the second block of five lessons. Because of the cold weather we have had to use still life in the atelier. Sometimes I use produce from the street market that is held every Wednesday morning just outside the atelier.
For beginners I have been encouraging them to get used to the feel of the materials and used to how watercolour behaves. The more experienced students have been encouraged to omit drawing in pencil and look for the shapes of the tonal values first. This is to free up their technique.
These are three demonstrations of one of the still lives. I normally do not do lengthy demonstrations in class as I firmly believe that students do not pay to watch paint dry. However to illustrate points did these.
This was painted without preparatory drawing & looking for the tonal values to start with.
I have followed this through in the second example also looking for colour in the dark values.
The third one has a preparatory drawing carried out with a brush and cadmium red.
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